CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North

CMIT Solutions takes care of your technology support and so much more - offering strategic advice, technological expertise, and the kind of insight and partnership you can only get from a trusted advisor.  CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North, IL is the small business IT support and IT services company for Arlington Heights, Bannockburn, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Glenview, Green Oaks, Half Day, Indian Creek, Lake Forest, Libertyville, Lincolnshire, Mettawa, Northbrook, Riverwoods, Schaumburg , Vernon Hills, Wheeling and surrounding areas. 

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Scott Graflund, Owner

Scott Graflund was born and raised in the Chicagoland area.  He attended DePaul University and Illinois Benedictine University where he received undergraduate and graduate degrees in Management Information Systems.  After completing his formal education, Scott spent twenty two years working for a global financial services firm gaining experience in technology software development, technology infrastructure management and IT strategy.  Throughout his corporate career, Scott always had a vision of finding a way to bring Fortune 500 quality IT Support and IT Services to small and medium sized businesses.  Scott founded CMIT Solutions of Arlington Heights in 2008 to make that vision a reality  and as the business has grown, recently rebranded it to CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North.

Member of the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce

Bob Gilgenberg (President) - Bob Gilgenberg was born and raised in the Chicagoland area. He studied at McHenry County College and has a portfolio of technology certifications. Bob has spent 20+ years building a career focused on technology and small business.  Bob has built small businesses, managed small businesses, consulted with small businesses all with technology as the underlying focus of his efforts.Linda Dana (Business Development Executive) - Linda Dana was born in Western Illinois and moved to the Chicago area 25+ years ago.  Linda attended college in both Galesburg and the Chicago area with a focus on business.  Linda enjoys working with people and has focused her career in sales, sales management and business development.  Throughout her career, Linda has always taken pride in working with products and services which help her business clients acheive their short and long term goals in their buisness ventures.   

Our Local and Nationwide Team - CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North has four full-time local engineers and works in partnership with other Chicagoland area CMIT Solutions locations sharing resources, best practices and working collaboratively to provide area clients with a talented portfolio of local technology resources.  With more than 800 consultants and technicians   nationwide, CMIT Solutions has expertise in nearly all technologies and industries providing information technology services and solutions to thousands of small and mid-sized businesses across the nation.    

  

 

Areas of Focus - CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North specializes in Computer Maintenance, Computer Repair, Hardware Resale, Networking, Managed Services and Data Backup and Data Recovery.  CMIT Solutions of Chicagoland North focuses on providing these services to small and medium sized businesses across Chicago's Northwest suburbs and surrounding areas. 

 

 

  • Thursday, August 27, 2009

    CMIT Solutions headquartered in Austin, TX, has over 100 national franchises of local computer consultants. 

    Based on my personal experience CMIT's franchise owners are not simply propeller headed geeks, but are truly passionate about ensuring their business clients are successfully using technology to grow their business. 

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  • Tuesday, August 4, 2009

    ESCONDIDO ---- Ken Hamilton used to fly around the country as the technological Mr. Fix-it for big corporate clients. But since he bought his own franchise, he gets to stay within driving distance of home.

    Hamilton's specialty is computer technology. He helps companies buy the right computers, install security and meet the other tasks needed to keep corporate systems running.

    Now president of CMIT Solutions of Inland North County, Hamilton says staying local lets him participate in the community while still doing his job. That's something he said was hard while working for 18 years as part of a Hewlett Packard business-to-business sales team.

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  • Wednesday, July 15, 2009

    Algonquin - Scott Brennan, president of CMIT Solutions of Fox Valley North earned Franchise of the Year honors. Not bad, considering he only joined the information technology franchisor three years ago. In fact, Brennan earned Rookie of the Year honors. The award recognizes franchise owners and their businesses based on sales, performance and leadership within the franchise system.

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  • Thursday, July 9, 2009

    July 07, 2009 // Franchising.com // Austin, Texas - Confusion, frustration and disorganization... these are the symptoms of small to mid-size business (SMB) owners who cannot wrap their arms around the information technology (IT) issues they face. In response to the SMB community's ongoing struggle to identify, report and fix technology-related problems, CMIT Solutions today announced the release of CMIT Service Center, the world's first co-managed service desk -- a simple web-interface for submitting issues and tracking progress. 

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  • Wednesday, July 8, 2009

    Cost-conscious businesses that find their IT departments overwhelmed with technology issues might turn to IT services provider CMIT Solutions, which announced the launch of its co-managed service desk.  

    Information technology professional services and products supplier CMIT Solutions announced the launch of what the company claims is the world's first co-managed service desk, the CMIT Service Center, a simple Web interface for submitting issues and tracking progress.  

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  • Wednesday, July 8, 2009

    AUSTIN, Texas --(Business Wire)-- CMIT Solutions has announced the release of a CMIT Service Center, a service desk product that allows companies with in-house information technology (IT) teams to improve the quality, efficiency, and availability of IT support while eliminating the need for extra headcount or multiple vendors.

    "It's a huge step forward for companies with in-house IT staff," says Jeff Connally, president and CEO of CMIT Solutions. "Instead of informally tracking requests for service or processing service requests on the fly, internal IT teams can now set up automated workflow rules to guide the processing and escalation of requests. 

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  • Wednesday, July 1, 2009

    PROVO, Utah and AUSTIN, Texas, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- eFileCabinet, an innovative global provider of electronic document management systems and CMIT Solutions, a leading provider of IT consulting and support services today announced their strategic reseller partnership. CMIT Solutions has recently added eFileCabinet software to its lineup of service offerings, providing franchise partners the opportunity to offer advanced paperless technology to their customers.

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  • Friday, June 5, 2009

    Your IT staff has been cut in half. You’re in the process of upgrading your server configuration to leverage virtualization and data encryption. You’re comparing proposals from different email management service vendors. And, in the middle of all this action, you get a phone call from someone in payroll who is in a panic because he’s unable to enter his password and can’t access his accounting software. You spend five minutes calming the guy down and another five minutes diagnosing his machine remotely.

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  • Wednesday, June 3, 2009

    Franchisors all over the country are employing IT solutions to maximize profitability and enable their franchisee to operate with greater efficiency. For example,  technology is an essential component to the growing success of Mr. Handyman and Molly Maid franchises, says Todd Recknagel, president and CEO of the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Mr. Handyman International as well as a Service Brand International board member.  Mr Handyman's proprietary software systems Toolbox.net and Molly Maid's CCS.net make it possible for franchisees o stay organized and deliver excellent customer service.

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  • Monday, May 4, 2009

    Looming Social Security and pensions weren't economically stimulating enough at the Everett home of John and Sue Smythe.

    They started looking around for an investment that would supplement their retirement. Both say they found the franchise opportunity of their dreams.

    "I don't think we ever wanted to retire in the traditional sense," Sue Smythe said. "We both enjoy intellectual stimulation. It keeps us feeling young. And it doesn't feel like we're working. We're doing something that feels good and makes us happy."

    And when they do want to slow down, they'll have a manager run CMIT Solutions, offering information technology services to small- and midsize businesses. On Thursday, they received a Leadership Award from CMIT at a national convention for giving back to the organization and mentoring new franchisees.

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"For our [clinical research facility], it was better to have a preventive plan in place so that if something did break, we would be ahead of it, and it wouldn’t break instead of waiting for something to happen and then fix it. So, now CMIT is monitoring everything, and we haven’t had any issues so they can catch the problem before it even happens. "
"CMIT is all about peace of mind, and literally, it doesn't cost you anything because you are saving the money on me working on the computer when I'm losing business. In today's economy, you don't want to be late sending bills out, you've got to be out there because if you start falling behind you're going to see the amount of income drop dramatically. So, Greg and CMIT make us look more...
"Whereas our systems were originally only getting backed up on a monthly basis, CMIT was able to come in and now they are automatically backed up to the server. We had a center in the DFW area that did lose everything. They made a phone call to CMIT, and CMIT was able to restore their data within a couple of hours. We’re monitored on a 24/7 basis, so even if there was something that were to...
"The way CMIT does business is just much more suitable for our type of business environment. We have deadlines and critical schedules to meet, and we need to be moving forward at all times. CMIT provides data on a monthly basis, which allows us to look at trends and be proactive with our decisions and our methods for improving our system. Every time my system improves, that means my efficiency...
"CMIT dealt with my local backup needs so that if I just need to get one specific piece of information, they can actually do it remotely from their office and get my people back and going. If I do have a catastrophic disaster that takes my entire building, I have laptops and everything else that I can have up immediately. I can use my web-based information storage and be back up and running...
"We pride ourselves that we are the company that gives instant customer service. We were getting to a point where it was extremely difficult, and we didn't want to lose our customer base. We wanted to also expand. I said, 'I need somebody to do something to allow us to be the company that we started out to be and to continue and to grow.' CMIT has helped us to do just that.   "
"Since partnering with CMIT, I can now not worry about whether or not my computers are working. I've got backups, monitoring, I can get reports, and I know where I'm having risks and threats. I now can rely on my IT people (CMIT) to take care of my IT problems and to keep that IT system up and running in an appropriate manner. That is something before I couldn't rely on. I now have a system!...
"We didn’t initiate offsite backups in the beginning, but with the start of the hurricane season we said, 'OK guys, we now have this wonderful system, but it's not really complete yet.' We're now able to back up our data, it's safely transported and stored offsite, and it’s all HIPAA compliant. And the NAS device can actually work as our server so we can continue to use our systems and do...
"With other IT service providers, we felt that we only got assistance when we requested it, and we normally came up with any ideas for improvements on our system rather than them. I was not impressed with the service, the communication or the end product at that point. Our experience has really set CMIT and Sue and John who run the show for them here apart from the others. They are more...
"We use large aerial imagery that can sometimes be 30 or 40 GB in size. There would be times that I would wait 30 seconds to a minute and a half for an image to appear. CMIT Solutions helped us rehabilitate the computers on hand, put in a network infrastructure, and put in faster switches. Now, it can be instantaneous to 15 seconds for a map to load. I kind of feel like I'm spoiled!   "

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